The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. You belong to Me and Me alone, therefore you will never be left alone and exposed to the enemy. When you are Mine, I stamp My seal upon you, which is the indwelling Holy Spirit that takes up residence in your heart. When I reside in your heart, then I guide your very steps each moment of your day and this sets you apart from those around you who do not know Me. When you are set apart, you are holy to Me, and My will for your life is then realized and shown to the world. This is what a mature child looks like – one who has been sanctified in My Spirit and walks according to the purpose I intend for you. This is a life of obedience, and yet there are but few who fully realize this in your life at any moment, for these are lofty goals I have set for you. Because you don’t always follow My will and My way, then you become disheartened and downcast because you hold yourself to a higher standard due to the Spirit that lives in you. But My loves, you live in a broken and fallen world that is constantly seeking your demise, so do not succumb to the worldly ways, as I Am always with you. I hold you to a higher standard, and when that is not realized it doesn’t mean that I love you less. These are the times when I Am drawing you closer, that you be uplifted and held tightly by Me. This is a life common to each of you – valleys of testing and mountain tops of victory, and with each I Am there.
Is 43:1-7 (ESV) But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. 5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. 6 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, 7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
(Eph 1:13-14; Heb 12:6; Ps 34:18; Heb 3:7-19; Phil 1:6; Ps 139:7-10)
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